Sentences with phrase «research group called»

The research group called for a ban on mobile use behind the wheel, even with hands - free use.

In fact, six years after Vallas began to promote his «Vallas Turnaround Model,» a Louisiana Education Research Group called Research on Reforms, determined that 79 % of the charter schools in the Recovery School District were graded D or F by the state.

Therefore, in 1999 the Department of Defense tasked a research group called Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) with the job of developing a set of standards which later became known as SCORM.

In fact, according to a survey conducted by an independent research group called Survata, among all the Christian marriages that started online, 29 % began on ChristianMingle.com.

For example, the members of a research group called DZero at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) recently began publishing on the Internet plain language versions of their scholarly papers.

Maps that the New York Public Interest Research Group called the most gerrymandered in recent history.

Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group called it «an interesting approach where both parties have been at loggerheads for years» but said «there's definitely a possibility» that the proposal ended in another classic Albany impasse in which the Democrat - dominated Assembly and GOP - controlled Senate fail to agree on a bill that can make it to the governor's desk.

Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group called the plan, approved seven months before Election Day, «designed to fail.»

Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group called it cynical.

For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

Not exact matches

Henry Harteveldt, founder of travel consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group, called such fees «the little black dress» of the airline industry.

A group of private investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, just launched a $ 27 million research fund, called the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund.

The event, called Catalyst Canada Honours, is run by Catalyst — a nonprofit organization that is focused on expanding opportunities for women in business — and the group has been researching woman at work since its inception in 1962.

After an extensive research, in 2010 he successfully built a sustainable business venture called Mytrah Group, headquartered in London.

Immigration reform, education and scientific research among early priorities for new group called FWD.us.

The group called for efforts to promote the prudent use of drugs and research to develop new antibiotics and new infection fighting tools.

According to the Minerva research team at Georgia State University, the 2014 expansion of IS» so - called Caliphate was foretold by «Wiki Baghdady» - a Jihadi insider, but more than likely an al - Qaida agent - who predicted IS would amass multiple group allegiances and then announce them simultaneously in order to project power and influence.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

«If you looked at the entire American diet 10 years ago, and the diet today, the thing that has increased most is this product called yogurt,» says Harry Balzer, the chief food analyst at market research firm NPD Group.

The group's guidance follows calls for various bans on use of the technology known as CRISPR - Cas9, which has quickly become the preferred method of gene editing in research labs because of its ease of use compared with older techniques.

Collins called the future group of participating volunteers «unique and transformative» for precision - medicine research.

One piece of good news: Business travel tends to slow down in the days before Christmas, and some travelers flying for work are likely to have called off trips booked for early in the week because of the chaos in Atlanta, said Henry Harteveldt, travel industry analyst and founder of consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group.

In fact, according to RAIN Group Center for Sales Research, cold - calling is one of the most effective ways to connect with tech prospects.

But when the B.C. government announced this week plans to bar increases to diluted bitumen (oil sands crude) shipments while it launches a new panel study of spill research, the group Stand.earth advised Kinder Morgan investors to call their brokers because this will delay or permanently thwart the company's federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Moments uses facial recognition technology, which was developed by Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab, a group of 50 researchers led by Yann LeCun, an expert in a type of machine learning called deep learning.

Late last year, a research firm called Defense Group Inc. argued in a report prepared for Congress that the Neurala investment could give China access to the company's underlying technologies.

This deep dive involves additional research, including customer and employee focus groups and call monitoring.

Florida's High Tech Corridor spans 23 counties across the state, connected by three research universities, more than 20 local and regional economic development organizations, 14 community and state colleges, 12 regional workforce boards, countless industry groups and the thousands of innovative companies that call this region home.

The behavioral economist George Loewenstein and his research colleagues have shown, using data from Vanguard Group, that investors check the value of their financial assets much less frequently, on average, in down markets — a behavior the researchers call «the ostrich effect.»

In its paper, the BPP Group raises a number of concerns regarding the hard regulatory approach suggested by the Directive proposals and calls upon the European Commission, Parliament and national governments to support the proportionate, principles - based approach to service supplier oversight overwhelmingly supported by shareholders that is embodied in the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.»

Going back to the origins of personas and buyer personas as an ethnographic research effort to inform design and strategy, these meant involving multi-disciplinary groups from design, branding, corporate strategy, marketing, call centers, fulfillment, and service.

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

But I have believed and believe, and have researched and found, that the first group in A.A. — Akron Number One, as Bill Wilson called it — provides the proper starting point for a look at A.A., its roots, its history, its nature, its successes, and its God — the Creator.

Ferreira's previous research found that beer marinades effectively reduce levels of another group of carcinogens called heterocyclic amines (HCAs), which form when amino acids, sugars, and creatine in meats react at high temperatures.

According to the findings, at least three Harvard scientists were paid to publish data handpicked by a sugar industry - backed trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation.

In response to renewed calls by some health groups for more education and sales restriction of soft drinks, based off new figures from Roy Morgan Research, the Australian Beverages Council issued the following statement:

27 March 2015 MEDIA STATEMENT Australian Beverages Council responds to calls for more regulations of soft drinks In response to renewed calls by some health groups for more education and sales restriction of soft drinks, based off new figures from Roy Morgan Research, the Australian Beverages Council issued the following statement: Statement: «Australians» beverage preferences -LSB-...]

Americans» favorite imported beer comes from Mexico, thrives at the beach, and is called Corona, according to the IRI Group (a market research and analytics company).

Jens Ludwig, an economist at the University of Chicago who oversees a research group there called the Crime Lab, has for the past few years been studying, along with some colleagues, a counseling program called Becoming A Man, or BAM, which operates inside 49 Chicago schools, mostly high schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Earlier this week, a Washington - based research group, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and two U.S. representatives called on Illinois to choose competitive bidding to save money.

When Davidson began to sense that early toilet training was possible for her daughter, she did research and contacted a nonprofit group called Diaper - Free Baby, which comprises 77 local groups in 35 states that promote and teach the elimination communication method to interested parents such as Davidson.

Given the desirability of breastfeeding, it is possible that women in the intervention group felt more guilty about discontinuing breastfeeding than control women because of relationships developed with the peer counselor, and thus, they did not answer telephone calls when the research assistant called to ascertain feeding status.

A group calling itself, Volta Coalition for Research and Advocacy (VoCRA), is raising issue with attempts to split the Volta Region, saying it poses threat to the security of the good people of the region, as well as the country.

This was all called to our attention this morning via Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who is an astute student of state political history.

The Genetic Interest Group, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and UCL Institute for Child Health have written to health minister Lord Darzi calling for an amendment to the human fertilisation and embryology bill which would allow parents to consent to their child's genetic material being used in medical research.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement, calling for automatic voter registration and same - day voter registration.

At 6:15 p.m., Riders Alliance members, members of the New York Public Interest Research Group's straphangers campaign and others rally to call on Cuomo to address crumbling subway infrastructure, outside of Cuomo's office, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

A campaign backed by CUNY's faculty union, the Working Families Party, New York Public Interest Research Group and others is calling on the state to provide $ 2 billion for CUNY, with $ 784 million per year going to replace tuition not currently covered by federal aid at the system's two - and four - year colleges.

It appears that your study was not an academic one, but was carried out by a «creative market research» group called OnePoll.

«We're getting a steady flow of calls on the main complaints,» said Gene Russianoff of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which runs a voter help hotline.